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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?

Herman Melville

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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Come Known Laughter Myself Willing
There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
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Balloon Immortality Life Substantial
Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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Accomplishment Habit Inspirational Strange
No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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Animal Dog Help Ourselves Philosophy
The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot’s wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.
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Forever Free Future Government Past Religious Stand
The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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Blind Evil Ourselves Removal Worst
Failure is the test of greatness.
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Failure Greatness One Liner
A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
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Evidence Hard Himself Man Mouth Science Thinking True Understand
I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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Appearance Handsome Judgement Myself Personality
A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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Choice One Liner Smile Vehicle
Only the man who says no is free
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Freedom Man One Liner
A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
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Fact Incredible Reality True
Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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Rule Sleep Thinking Yourself
Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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Friendship Help Illusion One Liner
Art is the objectification of feeling.
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Art Feeling Objectification One Liner
There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
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Gentle Hide Known Mystery Sea Soul Sweet Talk

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